Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years

4 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by vinhnx

3 Comments

shideneyu

6 hours ago

Ruby will forever be home for me. It's enjoyable and readable for humans

Borg3

3 hours ago

Exacly. And I love its written in C. You need to extend Ruby w/ your favorite Graph Library? You just slap .c glue code and vioala it works like a charm!

_wire_

6 hours ago

Ruby and Rails are fine engineering. A language that truly learned from all that came before it, and a web framework built on clear abstractions artfully expressed by the language. It feels good because compared to its contemporaries it's designed well.